Switch-stand



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P. 0. WEIR.

SWITCH STAND. No. 374,437. Patented Dec. 6,1887.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDRIC C. WEIR, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

SWITCH- STAND.

SPECIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 37%,437, dated December 6, 1887.

(No model.)

To an whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FREDRIO O. WEIR, a

resident of Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful' Improvements in Switch- Stands, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in switch-stands, the object of which is to provide simple and effective means for locking the switch-stand in any desired position by inserting the padlock through an orifice in the end of the reduced switch-lever.

In the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improvement. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the crank-arin and lever. Fig. 3 is a perspective view otFig. 2. Fig. 4. is a top plan View of the crank-arm.

1 represents the switch -stand, the top of which forms a table with three notches, a, into which the lever drops for holding the switchrails in any desired position.

3 represents the journal of the upright shaft, 4 being the top of thejournal, which is madesquare to fitthe orifice through the crankarm 5.

2 represents the bearing in the stand, in which the shaft 3journals.

The crank-arm 5 is provided with a slot of peculiar shape, 0 representing the inner end of the slot, which is just wide enough to receive the reduced end of the lever, drepresenting the outer end of the slot, which is wide enough to receive the pivoted lever 6 in full size.

7 represents a three-way chair or table securely attached to the switch-stand 1, preferably being cast of the same piece. It is pro vided with three notches, a, into which the lever 6 drops to hold the switch-rails in any desired position.

8 represents shoulders or lugs, which project upward and inward, as shown in Figs. 2, 3, and 4, so as to engage close to the reduced end of the lever, which is leveled down sufficiently to allow an ordinary padlock-hasp to be inserted in the end of the lever itself by passing through an orifice, 9, pierced therein. This form of construction is not only very simple and convenient,but is such that greater strength with less amount of material may be obtained than with the forms hitherto in use.

The slot 0 only being sufficientl y wide to receive the reduced end of the lever 6, the material of the arms is very much less cut away, and is stronger than those forms of arms which have to be slotted out sufficient to receive the full width of the lever. The ears 8 project inward over the wider portion of the slot; hence form a bcaring'support on the hasp of the padlock close to the point of its engagement in orifice 9.

10 represents an orifice pierced in the flange 11, which is projected on the top of the arm 5, so as to receive the chain which holds the padlock. Thus I am enabled with one piece of casting to make a light strong locking de vice to hold the lever 6 in a vertical position by inserting the padlock-hasp directly through the end of the lever.

Then it is desired to move the switch-rails, the ordinary padlock is removed out of the orifice 9 and lever 6 raised to a horizontal position and moved around until it comes op posite one of the notches a in the chair 7, into which it is dropped and locked.

I am aware that it is not new to employ a similar switch-lever in connection with the chair and bifurcated arms by slotting the end of the lever and placing the key into it to hold it in locked position. I am also aware that :1 lug has been used by connecting it with the top side of the lever, preserving the lever full width, having the slot in the arm sufiiciently large to receive it; but these devices are not my invention.

\Vhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In combination with a switch-stand, the crankarm 5, provided with the reduced slot 0 and large slot (1, secured to shaft 3, and the lever 6, pivoted thereto and having its end reduced so as to receive the hasp of a padlock in the orifice 9, pierced in the end of the lever.

itself, substantially as described.

2. In combination with a switch-stand, the arm 5, secured to shaft 3, provided with the slots 0 (1, cars 8, flange 9, and orifice 10, adapted to receive the lever 6, pivoted thereto, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

FREDRIO (J. WEIR. WVitnesses:

F. O. GAYMON, M. E. MILLIKAN.

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